A lot of solvers have quietly been frustrated with CoW Swap for a while fee splits and unpredictable batch auctions create real execution drag. That’s exactly why NEAR Intents is starting to look so attractive.
Here’s the technical angle most people miss:
1. Latency matters more than hype
Intent-style execution on NEAR doesn’t wait for batch auctions. Solvers can hit the best cross-chain route immediately, which reduces exposure to toxic flow and narrows the effective slippage window. For stable swaps, this is everything.
2. Solver economics actually work here
On most RFQ systems, solvers get squeezed between LP fees, protocol fees, and unpredictable candidate competition.
NEAR Intents flips this:
- predictable fee environment
- competitive execution across venues
- healthier solver margins
- no pointless race conditions
3. CoW is great tech, but not the right UX for every flow
Batching is powerful for large, toxic or adversarial flow.
But for daily stablecoin and cross-chain swaps?
Speed > optimal batching theory.
NEAR Intents solves the other 99% of real-world swaps.
4. A recommendation on fees
If @near_intents wants to fully dominate stablecoin orderflow, they should push fees on core stable pairs to near 1:1. Massive volume will follow. But for privacy assets charge more. That market is willing to pay.
5. The story is simple
Solvers follow incentives. Users follow execution quality.
Protocols win on predictable flows + best price. Right now, NEAR Intents is delivering all three. This is why you’re seeing the charts hockey-stick.
Keep seeing questions around @near_intents volume/fees.
Few key points:
- Fees don't account for "LP fees" which other DEXs report - those are internal to solvers
- Fees Intents report are more comparable to revenue CEXs make - which is not reported anywhere to compare outside of Hyperliquid afaik
- Intent volume is as organic as it gets - there is no arb / toxic flow because solvers already provide best price they can find across accessible venues
- Same for number of users - that's all retail via wallets and apps like Zashi, Ledger, Trust, Infinex, Kyber and first institutions that are starting to run their trading through Intents to get best price and best access to assets
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